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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Solitude is un-American.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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Being a daughter is only half the equation bearing one is the other.
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Love gives without taking
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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
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